[Sca-cooks] tomato sauce documentation

[Johnna Holloway]

Take a look at-- our article
from  9/5/02
 "Sixteenth Century Italian and Spanish Tomato References" by Johnnae 
llyn Lewis, Helewyse de Birkestad, and Brighid ni Chiarain.

It's in the Florilegium at http://www.florilegium.org/
or see it here at:
http://home.comcast.net/~iasmin/mkcc/MKCCfiles/16thCITomatoReferences.html

We cover the earliest "recipes" in the article.

Johnnae

Samrah wrote:

>I have heard rumor that sometime in the late 1500 the Italians made a sauce from tomatoes by cooking the "poisonous" beasties for 3 days....  Does anybody have docs on this.  I can surely bet somebody somewhere is going to want to use tomato sauce, and it might be better to doc it than discourage it...  The idea is get 'em cooking, get 'em looking, then tighten up the reigns and remind them that things like tomatoes were not commonly used...
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